Coronavirus Notebook continued

A to Zers don't add letters on Sundays so I'm back to thinking about the coronavirus again.

Another week has crept by, a holy week with both Passover beginning Wednesday night and Easter today.  These are holidays we'll never forget.  Instead of gathering around the table with our family for the Passover seders, we've watched or participated in virtual seders.  Instead of Easter sunrise service, we've listened to a streamed service online.  Regardless of how they;re celebrated, these holidays confirm our faith and bolster our courage.  We will get through this; we will survive.

This week a church in North Carolina sent our senior facility a large number of homemade masks.  Mine is a purple print--my favorite color.  An act of kindness from people far away.

Our memoir class had its final meeting on Tuesday via Zoom.  We hope to have another class in the summer.  Not surprisingly, most of us have written about the virus and how it affects us.  I did that the last few weeks but this week I responded to the prompt about games with an essay about two games that are inextricably linked in my mind:  canasta and baseball.  They remind me of summers sprawled on the floor of my friend's bedroom, playing canasta and listening to Brooklyn Dodger baseball games on the radio.

Zoom has been our ticket to the outside world.  My Mah Jongg group meets every day at 4:00 to catch up on each others' pretty dull lives and to share tips on grocery shopping, making masks and the new Mah Jongg card.  On Tuesdays we play at realmahjongg.com with our phones on so we can talk, too.

Weird things I've seen this week: 1. An online add for a pair of silver earrings in the shape of rolls of toilet paper.  And who wouldn't love to have these as mementos of our stashes of toilet paper during the pandemic?
 2. The Houston Chronicle had a virologist answering questions that had been sent in.  Here's my favorite:  If you're home alone and have no symptoms, is it okay to pick your nose?
3. A cartoon of Van Gogh with a facemask hanging down from his one remaining ear.  "Damn!" he says.

And here's an interesting and rather weird podcast in which they interview inanimate objects.  It's called Everything is Alive, and they've interviewed a bar of soap, a pillow and my favorite, a can of cola.

We need to find something to laugh about during this time.  I hope you find something, too, and that you'll share.